Improvement in washing-machines



PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. FREED, OF sIoUx CITY,

IOWA, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF fHIs RIGHT TO DAVID MOKNIGHT, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WA'SHINGMACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.- 136,050, dated February 18, 1873.

of a vertical longitudinal section of my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the Same. Fig. 3 is a detail view.

My invention has relation to washing-machines and consists in the novel construction andcombination of the curved guide-slots, traveling-block, springs, and hinged operating bars, hereinafter described and claimed.

Act the drawing represents the box of an ordinary washing-machine, having raised central parts, as shown at B, and transverse bars 0. These bars serve as soap-holders. (3 represents a series of washing-rollers arranged upon the bottom of the box, as shown, and supported by the springs to. D represents my washing or rubbing block, which is usually corrugated on its lower surface. Both the rollers in the bottom of the box and the corrugations on the bottom of the rubber block are arranged obliquely so as to sustain toward each other the positions shown on Fig. 2 of the drawing. E E represent standards or bars attached to the rubber block, and extending upward, as shown. These standards respectivel y pass through the traveling plate or block G, at the bottom of which they are constructed with a supporting L ring, 0. represents a coiled spring attached to and arrangedaround the upper end of each of the The letter f standards E, above the traveling-block, and resting thereon. In each end of the travelingblock GI arrange a series of anti-friction rollers, marked h, to aid in the movements thereof, as hereinafter stated. The letter H indicates the operating-levers, pivoted, respectively, to the posts'K, which are pendent from the traveling -block. The letters N represent circular slots arranged in the raised central portion of the box, adapted to receive and provide for the movements of the traveling-block G. They may be formed by means of cleats fastened to the inner side of the box, or they may be grooved in the sides of said box, at will.

My device operates as follows, namely: The suds and clothing are placed in the box together, and the latter brought upon the rollers (l. The operator then seizes the cross-bar connecting the operating-levers and moves the rubbing-block back and forth upon the soiled garments until they are properly cleansed.

By means of the hinged levers, the springs f, and the traveling -block moving upon antifriction rollers in the circular slots or grooves, it is apparent that the rubbing process is made easy and rapid, without danger of obstruction from bunching or piling up of the garments upon the washing-rollers.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is H The circular grooves or slots N, traveling block G, springs f, hinged lever H, combined with the rubbers O and D, constructed and arranged as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed Inyname in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM HENRY FEE-ED.

Witnesses:

JOHN W. GLINE, MILTON M. REEVES. 

